Remembrance – Responsibility – Reconciliation

Lothar Wigger, Dr. phil., is university professor (retired) at the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education at the TU Dortmund University Marie Dirnberger, M.A in Education, is lecturer at the Institute for German Language at the Foreign Language University in Kyoto, Japan

• Short Biographies.- Remembrance – Responsibility – Reconciliation. New Challenges for Education in Germany and Japan. Introduction.- „The Meaning of Working Through the Past”. Theodor W. Adorno and the Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the Early Years of the Federal Republic of Germany.- Contested Remembrance. The “Old” Federal Republic and “New” Right Politics in Germany.- Japan’s Soft Power and the “History Problem”.- The Nanjing Massacre in Japanese Historiography and Education.- Moral Education and Historical Revisionism.- Educational Tourism for the Nation? Memory and History at Japan’s War Sites.- Japanese War Cemeteries and what they teach us about History.- The Ambivalence of Culture of Remembrance. The Controversy over the “Comfort Women”-Statue in the Relationship between Japan and Germany.- Life Stories as Memory Carriers. Culture of Remembrance and the Importance of Biographical Work and Biographical Research.- Encountering Absurdity through Theater. An Essay on Remembering andEducation about the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima.- The Problem of Responsibility in Technological Modernity. Reflections Following Günther Anders.